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Even the title is unfussy

We first reported about Shawn Colvin’s upcoming live album back in January when it was a sketchy little nameless thing with barely a factoid to boast of. Now it has a release date (June 22nd), a cover, a tracklist, and goes by the rather prosaic name of Live.

The 15 tracks that make up the album were culled from a trio of sold-out solo acoustic shows at the relocated Yoshi’s in San Francisco last summer. Co-produced by Shawn and her longtime collaborator John Leventhal, the album spans her 20-year solo career from 1989’s Steady On to 2006’s These Four Walls. As well as tracks from her five proper studio albums, Shawn revisits Robbie Robertson’s ‘Twilight’ and Talking Heads’ ‘This Must Be The Place’ from her 1994 collection Cover Girl, with a third cover represented by her brooding version of Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ (previously a digital single).

As far as we know, Shawn continues to work on the studio follow-up to These Four Walls, as well as her her memoirs, due out next year through Collins Publishers.